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A reminder of a person or situation in the past. For example, He really played a fine game for a fifty-year-old—shades of his high school triumphs , or They found themselves alone on the beach—shades of their childhood summers together . [Mid-1800s]

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As Avery Tolar, the senior partner at a Memphis law firm deeply entrenched in the criminal enterprises of a Chicago mob family, Hackman brought depth in the shades of a tortured man in too deep.

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He has also been the subject of numerous works, including Jonathan Yeo's portrait last year, with its striking shades of red.

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That, as we know, can be cloaked in shades of gray either with words or plain cloth.

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But the cover took five months to put together, with designer Brent David Freaney testing around 500 shades of green to produce a garish, nausea-inducing effect.

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The game began to take on shades of Rome a year ago, when Scotland raced into a lead and then got pegged back slowly but surely.

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